Crossworks 2025 Letter
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bubblyishyoshiHi there! You can find my general fandom letter (contains more details on my preferences, likes, dislikes, and boundaries) here.
But first. Just going to explain what I mean by Racist/Sexist/Ableist/Orientalist White Wolf Worldbuilding. The best way to do this is to provide examples. I've already mentioned The Darkening (eugh) and the Kuei-Jin in my DNWs, but here's some more. Pretty much anything with the Black Dog name attached to it. The [Racial Slur for the Roma People] Splat. WTA's name for their cannibalistic tribe. WTA's earlier eugenics-style werewolf breeding. Changing Ways' inclusion of transphobia, antivax, anti-choice, and racial purity content. The origins of some kinds of Fomori necessitating sexual assault. That one transphobic caricature vampire that's also a Nazi. There's more but I have to stop or I'll be here all night. I would love it if you could just rename or avoid these kinds of topics. They've been making delightful progress in retconning this type of stuff in V5, so feel free to take inspiration from there. Hunter: The Parenting also hilariously retconned the Kuei-Jin (they're a LARP group based out of LA now lmao), which can also serve as inspiration for you. So in short: either change it so it's respectful of whatever content it's butchering, axe it, or make an in-world meme out of how terrible and untrue it is.
I'll go over each request I made by title and provide prompts/ideas, really anything about them.
Includes: Bloodstained, Castlevania: SoTN, Castlevania: Aria/Dawn
- While SoTN and Aria/Dawn do take place in the same world, I'm inclined to say they count as a crossover since the time period is so different. Send that boy backwards in time. Make him fight evil Richter!!! Let him meet Alucard when he's blonde!!
- Bloodstained and SoTN would go together so well. The time periods are similar and the aesthetics are similar as well. Since Bloodstained is a spiritual successor, I'd love to see what you could do by trying to incorporate Miriam into the Castlevania lore. Maybe something like what they did with Shanoa but to the left.
- Bloodstained and Aria/Dawn also would go great! I'd love to see what a fusion would look like, actually. Would Soma be a shardbinder, or a vampire? What kind of clothes would he wear? What would he be doing in the hellhold? Where would the rest of the Aria cast factor into this? There's so much to explore.
Includes: Darkest Dungeon, Dredge, Fallen London, CAIN
- DD x Dredge: You could really go with either a fusion or a crossover here! I'd dig seeing the Hamlet on something like a Blackstone Isle situation, a further enough into the future for the right technology to have come about. Something about the dungeon tainting the sea or something. Where a lighthouse rises, the dungeon falls. What is a well if not a tower to the depths?
- DD x Fallen London: Your honor, send these fuckers to the Neath. I've done some fanart of flondon-style cameos on tumblr for Dismas and Bigby. I think if you tried to make their backstories mesh with the Neath's world it would be really neat. Maybe you could even try and include some canon characters from Flondon too! Seeing some kind of weird interaction between Neathly!Paracelsus and the Youthful Naturalist would be so silly.
- DD x CAIN: Ok, I'm going to be entirely honest. I have stolen DD characters' backstories for CAIN sessions before, and I think you should too. You can adapt some of their backstories pretty easily to the modern era, or you could just go "fuck it we ball, the hamlet is suffused with grace" and go that way.
- Dredge x Fallen London: You know Sunless Sea? You know Evolution? They're so Dredge-coded your honor. There's just... so much about the Zee that you could explore in a Dredge crossover. Is Julie a Drownie, dwelling with the Fathomking? Or something much, much worse? Would the Fisherman fashion himself a monster-hunter, eyes black with peligin? Or would the peligin eyes only belong to his reflection?
- Dredge x CAIN: Julie and the Collector is textbook Lord material. A kingdom of Black Stone and Glimmering Gems, a palace of wood and waves. Where all is well and all is loved and there is no terrible darkness in the deep to take her away. There is only the bright froth and the cool salt breeze,and a drifter holding a strange book.
- Fallen London x CAIN: This one feels a little more challenging than the others! I think CAIN as an order would stick out like a sore thumb in the Neath; their goal is containment and wiping out a stain of anomalies that would probably thrive in the Neath. So how would they fare? What would the actual agency look like?
Includes: Vampire: The Masquerade, Creator's Choice of Fandom, Any Other Fandom I've Requested in Crossworks 2025 (see list at bottom of post)
- PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. PLEASE. I LOVE VTM. PLEASE MAKE YOUR BLORBOS VAMPIRES. LOOK AT THE LIST OF CLANS. ADOPT THEIR BACKSTORY AND MAKE IT ANGSTY AND VAMPIREY. PLEASE. PLEASE. I WILL LOVE YOU FOREVER IF YOU DO THIS ONE. (it would be nice if you could write for the fandom-blind in case I don't know your fandom, but if not that's okay!)
Includes: Tactical Breach Wizards, Pressure (Roblox)
- I think it would be absolutely hilarious to fandom-fuse these guys. Make Pressure take place somewhere off of Samiya's coast, in the North Iassic Sea. A Reactor-Urbanshade merger would be absolutely fucked and the idea eats at my brain. Maybe Urbanshade swoops in and buys Reactor out after Rion murks Reactor's CEO, meaning that Urbanshade has more firepower (and access to craft coffin tech) than ever. Maybe this means our old gang has to get back together to stop Urbanshade from iterating on the craft coffin design. Maybe it means you introduce some new characters from the world of Tactical Breach Wizards and have them infiltrate the Blacksite. Go wild!
- From a different, non-post canon perspective: What would happen if Banks like *actually* got tried and arrested? What would happen if she went to jail and had escape put right in front of her hands? Would she take it? Could the Necromedic survive the Blacksite? I'd love to find out :)
- Alternatively, post-game... Send Liv Kennedy to the Blacksite?????? I need to see her get shot to death by painter
Includes: Columbo, CAIN, Professor Layton Series, Tactical Breach Wizards, Hunter: The Parenting
- Prompt
- Prompt
Includes: Creator's Choice of Fandom, Fallen London, Any Other Fandom I've Requested in Crossworks 2025 (see list at bottom of post)
- OKAY I WOULD ALSO LOVE YOU FOREVER IF YOU DID THIS ONE. I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE FALLEN LONDON'S SETTING AND I WOULD DIE TO SEE LITERALLY ANYTHING JUST. TAKING PLACE IN FALLEN LONDON. PLEASE. THE LORE IS SO COOL I BEG YOU. (it would be nice if you could write for the fandom-blind in case I don't know your fandom, but if not that's okay!)
Includes: Norfolk Wizard Game, Tactical Breach Wizards
- I think their technology eras are about the same! There's also a really neat parallel between them, in that TBW has 'unlocking' and NWG has 'awakening'. The only issue I think would be the meshing of a world where being a wizard is as fine and normal as being a plumber, and a world where the hidden potential of humanity is hidden by a clandestine alliance. That raises a lot of questions, which I think would be really fun to answer! How would Paradox affect the TBW wizards? What would the Technocracy think about the TBW Wizards? These are all really thoughts for a true 'crossover' type crossover, but I still think they're worth considering either way.
- For something like a fusion, how would the non-normalcy of wizardry affect the TBW characters' personal narratives? Being a Navy Seer isn't something you can do in the regular military. Would the Technocracy have been after Banks instead of the DSR? ...Can dogs still get magic?
- There's some interesting threads between the Chapel suppression of magic as innate and the existence and intent of the Technocracy. Maybe Dall and Marvolo could understand each other from that perspective.
- I think Banks and Parker would kind of understand each other; Each of them prizes something about themself over all. For Banks, it's doing things that only she can do. For Parker, it's being the only one who will take care of artifacts right. Would they get along? Would that similarity mean they'd step on each others' toes?
- Bill and Zan I think should have a beer together.
- Sybil and Jen would get along!!! I also think that Jen would get along with Samson from an alchemy perspective. Maybe not the sportsball one, but there's some character to be developed.
- crackfic prompt: rion and the monkey. shenanigans ensue.
Includes: Columbo, CAIN, Layton Brothers: Mystery Room, Tactical Breach Wizards
- Prompt
- Prompt
Includes: K-Pop Demon Hunters, World of Darkness
- Huntr/x as a group of Hunters in the World of Darkness would fucking SLAY. I would love to see them more down-to-earth. Maybe not as magical, but grounded. Firearms. Defenses on their base. Are they still pop stars, or have they pushed their careers to the side? And, would you use the demons as they're (very loosely) written in WoD? Or would they be fighting Kindred? The Sabbat? If you do go with them fighting Kindred, would Rumi be a thin-blood then? There's so much to explore!
Hi there! Here's all of the fandoms I've requested.
But first. Just going to explain what I mean by Racist/Sexist/Ableist/Orientalist White Wolf Worldbuilding. The best way to do this is to provide examples. I've already mentioned The Darkening (eugh) and the Kuei-Jin in my DNWs, but here's some more. Pretty much anything with the Black Dog name attached to it. The [Racial Slur for the Roma People] Splat. WTA's name for their cannibalistic tribe. WTA's earlier eugenics-style werewolf breeding. Changing Ways' inclusion of transphobia, antivax, anti-choice, and racial purity content. The origins of some kinds of Fomori necessitating sexual assault. That one transphobic caricature vampire that's also a Nazi. There's more but I have to stop or I'll be here all night. I would love it if you could just rename or avoid these kinds of topics. They've been making delightful progress in retconning this type of stuff in V5, so feel free to take inspiration from there. Hunter: The Parenting also hilariously retconned the Kuei-Jin (they're a LARP group based out of LA now lmao), which can also serve as inspiration for you. So in short: either change it so it's respectful of whatever content it's butchering, axe it, or make an in-world meme out of how terrible and untrue it is.
I'll go over each request I made by title and provide prompts/ideas, really anything about them.
Igavanias
Includes: Bloodstained, Castlevania: SoTN, Castlevania: Aria/Dawn
- While SoTN and Aria/Dawn do take place in the same world, I'm inclined to say they count as a crossover since the time period is so different. Send that boy backwards in time. Make him fight evil Richter!!! Let him meet Alucard when he's blonde!!
- Bloodstained and SoTN would go together so well. The time periods are similar and the aesthetics are similar as well. Since Bloodstained is a spiritual successor, I'd love to see what you could do by trying to incorporate Miriam into the Castlevania lore. Maybe something like what they did with Shanoa but to the left.
- Bloodstained and Aria/Dawn also would go great! I'd love to see what a fusion would look like, actually. Would Soma be a shardbinder, or a vampire? What kind of clothes would he wear? What would he be doing in the hellhold? Where would the rest of the Aria cast factor into this? There's so much to explore.
Eldritch Horror!!
Includes: Darkest Dungeon, Dredge, Fallen London, CAIN
- DD x Dredge: You could really go with either a fusion or a crossover here! I'd dig seeing the Hamlet on something like a Blackstone Isle situation, a further enough into the future for the right technology to have come about. Something about the dungeon tainting the sea or something. Where a lighthouse rises, the dungeon falls. What is a well if not a tower to the depths?
- DD x Fallen London: Your honor, send these fuckers to the Neath. I've done some fanart of flondon-style cameos on tumblr for Dismas and Bigby. I think if you tried to make their backstories mesh with the Neath's world it would be really neat. Maybe you could even try and include some canon characters from Flondon too! Seeing some kind of weird interaction between Neathly!Paracelsus and the Youthful Naturalist would be so silly.
- DD x CAIN: Ok, I'm going to be entirely honest. I have stolen DD characters' backstories for CAIN sessions before, and I think you should too. You can adapt some of their backstories pretty easily to the modern era, or you could just go "fuck it we ball, the hamlet is suffused with grace" and go that way.
- Dredge x Fallen London: You know Sunless Sea? You know Evolution? They're so Dredge-coded your honor. There's just... so much about the Zee that you could explore in a Dredge crossover. Is Julie a Drownie, dwelling with the Fathomking? Or something much, much worse? Would the Fisherman fashion himself a monster-hunter, eyes black with peligin? Or would the peligin eyes only belong to his reflection?
- Dredge x CAIN: Julie and the Collector is textbook Lord material. A kingdom of Black Stone and Glimmering Gems, a palace of wood and waves. Where all is well and all is loved and there is no terrible darkness in the deep to take her away. There is only the bright froth and the cool salt breeze,
- Fallen London x CAIN: This one feels a little more challenging than the others! I think CAIN as an order would stick out like a sore thumb in the Neath; their goal is containment and wiping out a stain of anomalies that would probably thrive in the Neath. So how would they fare? What would the actual agency look like?
Make your Blorbos (or mine) Kindred :D
Includes: Vampire: The Masquerade, Creator's Choice of Fandom, Any Other Fandom I've Requested in Crossworks 2025 (see list at bottom of post)
- PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. PLEASE. I LOVE VTM. PLEASE MAKE YOUR BLORBOS VAMPIRES. LOOK AT THE LIST OF CLANS. ADOPT THEIR BACKSTORY AND MAKE IT ANGSTY AND VAMPIREY. PLEASE. PLEASE. I WILL LOVE YOU FOREVER IF YOU DO THIS ONE. (it would be nice if you could write for the fandom-blind in case I don't know your fandom, but if not that's okay!)
Reactor-Urbanshade Merger, oh God What Have They Done
Includes: Tactical Breach Wizards, Pressure (Roblox)
- I think it would be absolutely hilarious to fandom-fuse these guys. Make Pressure take place somewhere off of Samiya's coast, in the North Iassic Sea. A Reactor-Urbanshade merger would be absolutely fucked and the idea eats at my brain. Maybe Urbanshade swoops in and buys Reactor out after Rion murks Reactor's CEO, meaning that Urbanshade has more firepower (and access to craft coffin tech) than ever. Maybe this means our old gang has to get back together to stop Urbanshade from iterating on the craft coffin design. Maybe it means you introduce some new characters from the world of Tactical Breach Wizards and have them infiltrate the Blacksite. Go wild!
- From a different, non-post canon perspective: What would happen if Banks like *actually* got tried and arrested? What would happen if she went to jail and had escape put right in front of her hands? Would she take it? Could the Necromedic survive the Blacksite? I'd love to find out :)
- Alternatively, post-game... Send Liv Kennedy to the Blacksite?????? I need to see her get shot to death by painter
Solve the Mystery (okay, there MIGHT be ghosts involved)
Includes: Columbo, CAIN, Professor Layton Series, Tactical Breach Wizards, Hunter: The Parenting
- Prompt
- Prompt
Put your Blorbos (or mine) in Fallen London :D
Includes: Creator's Choice of Fandom, Fallen London, Any Other Fandom I've Requested in Crossworks 2025 (see list at bottom of post)
- OKAY I WOULD ALSO LOVE YOU FOREVER IF YOU DID THIS ONE. I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE FALLEN LONDON'S SETTING AND I WOULD DIE TO SEE LITERALLY ANYTHING JUST. TAKING PLACE IN FALLEN LONDON. PLEASE. THE LORE IS SO COOL I BEG YOU. (it would be nice if you could write for the fandom-blind in case I don't know your fandom, but if not that's okay!)
Wizards!!!
Includes: Norfolk Wizard Game, Tactical Breach Wizards
- I think their technology eras are about the same! There's also a really neat parallel between them, in that TBW has 'unlocking' and NWG has 'awakening'. The only issue I think would be the meshing of a world where being a wizard is as fine and normal as being a plumber, and a world where the hidden potential of humanity is hidden by a clandestine alliance. That raises a lot of questions, which I think would be really fun to answer! How would Paradox affect the TBW wizards? What would the Technocracy think about the TBW Wizards? These are all really thoughts for a true 'crossover' type crossover, but I still think they're worth considering either way.
- For something like a fusion, how would the non-normalcy of wizardry affect the TBW characters' personal narratives? Being a Navy Seer isn't something you can do in the regular military. Would the Technocracy have been after Banks instead of the DSR? ...Can dogs still get magic?
- There's some interesting threads between the Chapel suppression of magic as innate and the existence and intent of the Technocracy. Maybe Dall and Marvolo could understand each other from that perspective.
- I think Banks and Parker would kind of understand each other; Each of them prizes something about themself over all. For Banks, it's doing things that only she can do. For Parker, it's being the only one who will take care of artifacts right. Would they get along? Would that similarity mean they'd step on each others' toes?
- Bill and Zan I think should have a beer together.
- Sybil and Jen would get along!!! I also think that Jen would get along with Samson from an alchemy perspective. Maybe not the sportsball one, but there's some character to be developed.
- crackfic prompt: rion and the monkey. shenanigans ensue.
Solve the Mystery (Part 2 electric boogaloo, because you can’t cross the Layton games over with themselves)
Includes: Columbo, CAIN, Layton Brothers: Mystery Room, Tactical Breach Wizards
- Prompt
- Prompt
This Showed Up On Accident In My Tags But Actually It Kinda Goes Hard So I Decided To Keep It
Includes: K-Pop Demon Hunters, World of Darkness
- Huntr/x as a group of Hunters in the World of Darkness would fucking SLAY. I would love to see them more down-to-earth. Maybe not as magical, but grounded. Firearms. Defenses on their base. Are they still pop stars, or have they pushed their careers to the side? And, would you use the demons as they're (very loosely) written in WoD? Or would they be fighting Kindred? The Sabbat? If you do go with them fighting Kindred, would Rumi be a thin-blood then? There's so much to explore!
Wildcard
Hi there! Here's all of the fandoms I've requested.
- Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
- CAIN (Tabletop Roleplaying Game)
- Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow/Dawn of Sorrow
- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
- Columbo
- Darkest Dungeon
- Dredge
- Fallen London
- Hunter: The Parenting
- K-Pop Demon Hunters
- Layton Brothers: Mystery Room
- Norfolk Wizard Game
- Pressure (Roblox)
- Professor Layton Series
- Tactical Breach Wizards
- Vampire: The Masquerade
- World of Darkness
